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Our shared values in Y5: To care for myself and others by making sure we are all safe and happy. To be honest in all we do/say. We always work hard and try our best. We listen carefully and thoroughly. We make sure we are always giving our best, so everyone else can be the best that they can be. We look after our property. We like to be 'leaders' and not 'followers' We always choose the 'good' light inside of us. We make the right choices at the right time.Anyone can train hard for a short period. Winners give their best every hour of every day for months on end.

In 5V we like to stop and think - before we do or speak.

'Give children a thought and they’ll learn for a day. Teach them to think and they’ll learn for a lifetime.’David HyerleIf you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.- William Arthur Ward You cannot write it, if you cannot say it; you cannot say it, if you haven't heard it. - Pie Corbett

We love to share our way of thinking, it does help us in our learning!

Opinion – I believe/My friends and I believe strongly….We, as a group of caring Y5’s,Â feel that…

Statistics e.g. 8/10 people….

Logical connectives ( therefore, because, as a result)

Emotive language + exaggeration ( eg. adjectives – exaggerate) There are billions of children in Africa, without parents to look after them – right now – without warm clothing and food!

Rhetorical questions [Don’t you agree that it is high time to make certain changes to our school uniform policy?

Lists of three: I’m a happy, content and responsible child

Repetition – nobody, not a single person, would be able to…. or…there are billions and billions of children in Africa…. Rule of Three: it is cheap, comfortable and colourful [wow, alliteration the same time!]

Short, dramatic sentences for impact. e.g. I have another good point to make.

Road Game is a piece for you to visit and to read through and to try the activities.

Here is a template of a chocolate wrapper. [click the image for a larger view] Print it off and design your own! It might help by looking at other wrappers to get some initial ideas. Look at the words and letter types also being used on the wrappers. Have fun!

Gobal Warming – explained

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/globalwarmingforkids.html

Click image for a larger view – see how you can get persuaded!

SA threatens to ban junk food ads on kidsTV

The South Australian Government will outlaw junk food advertisements during children’s television programs if the industry does not agree to a voluntary ban.

Health Minister John Hill told The Advertiser he had received legal advice saying it was possible to enforce a statewide ban.

Mr Hill will investigate how the ban can be implemented and discuss it with key interest groups.

We would prefer the ban to be imposed nationally, and we would prefer the industries involved to take their own action, but the State Government has sought legal advice on a state ban and the advice we have is that we can push ahead with legislation to introduce an SA ban as a last resort, he said.

With SA figures showing one in five of our state’s four-year-olds are either overweight or obese, and similar figures across Australia, these big companies need to take action and be part of the campaign to stop the escalating obesity crisis.

I want them to drop junk food and drink advertising in children’s television and if they fail to do this the State Government is prepared to go it alone and introduce our own ban on these ads if all else fails.

Mr Hill said the ban could be based on a model being implemented in the UK. All advertisements in Britain for foods that contain high salt, sugar and fat content during children’s programming will be banned from next year.

Mr Hill said junk food advertisements often led to bad eating habits among children.

We know that parents are very worried about the impact of these ads and the influence they have on children, he said.

Parents are particularly worried that these ads influence the way children spend their pocket money when they are unsupervised by adults.

Parents are also affected by what we call pester power the ability of children to influence what goes in the supermarket trolley through intensive pestering of their parents.

A Health Department survey conducted last year showed 78 per cent of people believed there was too much advertising for unhealthy food during children’s TV programs.

Another survey, conducted in NSW, revealed 10 junk food advertisements were shown each hour during children’s television times.

On this link there is a template for you to work on.http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/

Slogan generator

http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=chocolate

Teaching Kids the Rules of the Game

May 13, 2011 | 3:08 PM | By Tina Barseghian Back when Jill Vialet was a kid, she used to play with her neighborhood friends for hours at a time, unsupervised. It seemed unstructured, because no adults had established any parameters. But in fact, all their games had rules.

In the past generation, emphasis on play has shifted dramatically. For one thing, kids are rarely left unsupervised for a number of different reasons. Add to that the trend of cutting recess from school hours (only 26 minutes per day as of 2006), and the opportunity to learn how to play for kids has been really cut back.

Vialet is the founder of Playworks, a nonprofit organization that coaches schools, teachers, and playground supervisors on how to encourage good play practice. In some schools, Vialet says, recess is considered a nuisance a time for kids to get into fights that go unresolved, resulting in tensions that are brought back into the classroom and spill over into instructional times.

If you talk with some principals, they see recess as a time of day that has a negative impact on school climate,â€ she says. There are more suspensions and discipline problems as a result.

Recess is meaner than it used to be,one Oakland principal told New York Times writer David Bornstein.

Playworks steps in to help schools create a structure for play, and to familiarize both adults and kids with the tools of play. It seems to think that kids are going to figure out how to do it all on their own on the playground,Vialet says. We all had to learn from someone.

Schools deploy Playworks in two ways: they can hire fulltime staff person, experts in play, from Monday through Friday for the school year, or they can hire Playworks to train teachers, yard monitors, and security guards.

They take a generative approach, Vialet says of the Playworks staff. This is where we’re going to play kickball, these are the rules to this game. And they help create ideas that the kids will inevitably own instead of telling them what to do.

And that’s the point to create a scaffolding for play, and to encourage kids to come up with their own rules.

Vialet says in schools where the program has been institute, school staff say they love their jobs more, suspension rates have plummeted, there’s less violence, more peer social behavior, and more intermingling of different kinds groups.

According to a study published in Pediatrics, school children who receive more recess behave better and are likely to learn more. [see the next article]

Playworks is growing quickly. With an $18.7 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nonprofit will expand to 350 schools next year, and will serve more than 100,000 students. The organization is building a training business, as well.

Vialet was interviewed on KQED’s Forum program recently. You can listen to the program here on the site of KQED.

All work and no play may impede learning, health and social development.

January 26, 2009 (BRONX, NY) School children who receive more recess behave better and are likely to learn more, according to a large study of third-graders conducted by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Romina Mariel Barros, M.D.The study, published in Pediatrics, suggests that a daily break of 15 minutes or more in the school day may play a role in improving learning, social development, and health in elementary school children. The study principal investigator is Romina M. Barros, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Einstein.

Dr. Barros looked at data on approximately 11,000 third-graders enrolled in the national Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. The children, ages 8 to 9, were divided into two categories: those with no or minimal recess (less than 15 minutes a day) and those with more than 15 minutes a day. There were an equal number of boys and girls. The children classroom behavior was assessed by their teachers using a questionnaire.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, free, unstructured play is essential for keeping children healthy, and for helping them reach important social, emotional, and cognitive developmental milestones. Unstructured play also helps kids manage stress and become resilient.

However, some studies indicate that children are getting less and less unstructured playtime, a trend exacerbated by the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. Many schools responded to No Child Left Behind by reducing the time for recess, the creative arts, and physical education in an effort to focus on reading and mathematics, says Dr. Barros.

A 2005 survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics showed that the 83 percent to 88 percent of children in public elementary schools have recess of some sort. But the number of recess sessions per day and the duration of the recess periods have been steadily declining. Since the 1970s, children have lost about 12 hours per week in free time, including a 25 percent decrease in play and a 50 percent decrease in unstructured outdoor activities, according to another study.

The present study shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are especially affected by this trend. This is a serious concern,says Dr. Barros. We know that many disadvantaged children are not free to roam their neighborhoods, even their own yards, unless they are with an adult. Recess may be the only opportunity for these kids to practice their social skills with other children.

When we restructure our education system, we have to think about the important role of recess in childhood development, adds Dr. Barros. Even if schools do not have the space, they could give students 15 minutes of indoor activity. All that they need is some unstructured time.

The paper, School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior, was published in the February 1 issue of Pediatrics here.

[From the Feb. 1 issue:] CONCLUSIONS. These results indicated that, among 8- to 9-year-old children, having daily recess period of >15 minutes in length was associated with better teacher rating of class behavior scores. This study suggests that schoolchildren in this age group should be provided with daily recess.

According to Scientists, Watercress is a fighter veggie against cancer and broccoli too. See the link to the Daily Science on the above link.

When it comes to a salad leaf that is truly good for you, look no further than watercress.

Bursting with vitamins and minerals, this peppery little leaf is one of our natural superfoods and tastes great too.

Pile it into sandwiches, toss into salads, whiz into soups or sauces or wilt into pastas or stir fries, it is incredibly versatile, but don’t just leave it to languish on the side of the plate as a garnish!

Gram for gram contains more vitamin C than oranges, more iron than spinach and more calcium than milk.